Overview
Project Honeypot is a security scanner from Unspam Technologies, Inc used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Verispider; a representative HTTP user-agent is PHPot Verispider v0.1 - http://www.projecthoneypot.org/.
Project Honeypot is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Project Honeypot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
Project Honeypot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
Verispider- HTTP Agent Examples
PHPot Verispider v0.1 - http://www.projecthoneypot.org/- Robots.txt Token
Verispider- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Verispider` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Security
- Kind
- Scanner
- Family
- Unspam Technologies, Inc
- Purpose
- security
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Project Honeypot is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
- Detection Notes
- Project Honeypot traffic is primarily detected by the `Verispider` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `PHPot Verispider v0.1 - http://www.projecthoneypot.org/` Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Unspam Technologies, Inc infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- Project Honeypot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- No
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.